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Why Women Are Wert Faithful Than jtfffj# < By Winifred Black " 8 a matter of toot, vonn are much mot* faithful than men. but they are not so constant. Even a atroni-mladed mu *1 MT & terrible time Mng faithful to the woman he iwllr . loves, but ha wilt have just aa bad a time trying to forget It to no trouble for em a weak woman to be true to the ana ahe lorie while she loves him? but she will torfot his aame and the wary way he parted his hair while he la still having seatimental thrills every time he sees the particular mm of poMjr she used to wear ? and he used to pay for. Not one woman la a thousand la capable of the deipwt lore. _ Neither to MM man In a thousand. The average man or woman isn't capable of any par tfcmlar deep iMMag of any sort. The average woman marries the average man becanae he lives near her and happened fee he the man the other girls were all talking about as a good ??tch. The average man marries the average woman because he happeaed to ?o home with her In the ??*?? 'il'gM juat at the time when his primitive emo tional nature was wide awake. Women love their husbands because they are faithful to them. If a man were shut up on an island with his wife he would love her twice as desperate ly. Why? Because she would represent to him all that was possible in the way of love aad In loving love he would have to love her. Womea are shut up in the island of convention. As loag as they are lu love with love they have to be in love with their husbands. The Mohammedan understands this little trick of nature and he sees to it that to his wife's mind, he represents all thai is masculine in the world. All this talk of faith and unfdth is mere sound and fury. A deep nature Is faithful, be It maa*S or woman's. A light nature is faithless, be It masculine or feminine. You can't measure the ocean in a pint cup, and you must not Judge big, Cnmrous, deep-hearted human nature by the peccadillos of some pretty little yei ia, who couldn't be true to a friend for a week, let alone a sweetheart for Vfe. I know a man who loves his wife devotedly, yet he never sees a pretty woman without wanting to flirt with her. This man's wife is a sensible oman. She has looked the matter squarely in the face and made up her mind that ahe la happier In misery with him than in peace without him, and she says: "Joe doesn't mean a thlag by all this. I can always tell when he's tired of the latest flame. He's always so desperately in love with me." She'a a bright little woman with a laughing mouth and the saddest eyes I ever saw. But for all the sad eyes, I think she Is right in her philosophy. Her husband Is worth su Storing for. He Is a great man in most ways, a very good mmn and he would cut off his right arm at the shoulder to save her a minute's gain but be can't stop flirting. Most men of that sort are not worth the bother. This one la. It to all a Matter of personality, after all.? The American. The British Want the Whole Earth ? And the Sea By Jtndrewo D. White I N his argument Selden began, as was then usual, with the Bible. In order to refute Grotius's Idea that the ocean can not be made the property of any one nation ' he cites the twenty-eighth verse of the first chapter of Genesis, which de clares that God said to Adam, "Have dominion over the fish of the sea." "Now," continued Selden, "the fish are the llv lng revenue, ? the use of the sea. If these be given, the property itself may be considered as given. Again God said to Noah and his descendants, 'Your fear shall be UDon the siaii of the sea,' <Genesis lx. 2).** Selden then went on to lay stress upon the declaration of the Almighty to the Israelites. "Thy borders are in the midst of the sea," and he argued that of course dominion was given them within these borders, and therefore that this dominion extended over the ocean. He even pressed into his service the poetry of Isaiah who.as he says, called Tyre "the might of the seas," and Selden argues that "might" in this caso can only soeaa possession. He declares that the Red Sea is called Edom, which means red, simply becsww.lt belonged to the descendants of Esau. With the same pedantic fullness Selden ransacked the Talmud, the myriad writers of classical antiquity, the records of mythology, theology, and philol ogy. Neptune, god of the seas, he Insists Is only a king who really existed and had the right to rule the sea; stress is laid upon Xerxes as binding the Helles* pont, and following these examples are a multitude from modern history equal ly cogent Having thus gone throngh history, sacred and profane, to show that divine and human authority are on the side of British sovereignty over the seas, he turns to logic, and produces a series of arguments^stlll more extraordinary. He argues that If nations can own land they can own water; that If they can own a little water they can own much; that it Is as conformable to reason for a na tion to control an ocean as a river.? The Atlantic. The Secret of Japanese Success in Farming. By Jida L. Mure u? A BOUT one-half of the entire population of Japan Is engaged in cultivating the soil, and all this work is done by hand. The Implements used are of the most primitive kind. The plows are made of rough wood, to which an iron point is at* Cached, and are said to be the fac-sitnile of those used in the days of Pharaoh. They are frequently drawn by a bullock and both Implement and beast are guided by a man or wom an who walks patiently all day long through the slush and mire of the riee fields. la etildvtUis, * hoe Is used, the blade of which Is set at an angle of nearly forty-live degrees, and Is almost as long as the rough wooden handle. Japan produces crops of fine Wheat, especially In the southern part of the ?ountiy, aad the method of heading It Is the most primitive of all. An Imple ment very much like a curry comb in appearance Is used for this purpose. It to made sometimes of iron and sometimes of wood, and as It Is drawn upward through the straw the beads are snapped off. Compare this with the Ameri can machine which cuts a swath twelve feet wide, removes the heads and ele vates the wheat Into a wagon of special construction. Yet with these primitive tools It Is astonishing to find the magnificent harvest that the Japanese farmer reaps, ^he rieo crop occupies one-half of the land under cultivation, and it la said that the Japanese farmer produces better rlco and a greater quantity per acre than any fanner in the world. As It Is the staple article of diet there Is a tremendous home consumption, and the foreign trade Is rapidly increasing. Such an Influence has the rice crop on the commerce of Japan that some times business operations are almost L-nspended when it is feared it may fail owlag to unpropitious weather. The failure would l>e a national crI amity, for It would mean financial disaster to a great many persons and some of the largest commercial enterprises would be compelled to close their doors. The secret of the success a f the Japanese farming is certainly not attrlb ?table to the Implements employed, but there are two other great factors In the cultivation of the soil, and they are fertilization and Irrigation, and in these the farmer of Japan Is certain!/ an adept. Only onetwelfth of the area of the empire can be used for agricultural purposes, and by centuries -of systematic Irrigation and fertilization It has been brought to the highest state of cultivation. The sides of the hills and mountains are terraced, as are also the rice fields. The rain water In maay places Is conserved on the top of the moun tains; the rivers are all utilized, canals are cut, and hence th? system of Irri gation is made complete. ? Pilgrim. CHOCOLATE CAKHl Cream one half cup of butter and Iwo cup* of sugar, odd fvo beaten eggs and beat ngain, ndd one half cup of milk. Molt one Hcpiaro of chocolato in one half cup of hot ?trong coffee and add this elowly to the buttc*, su gar and eggs, Ideating nil the time. 81ft two cups of flour with four level teaspoons of baking powder p nd add to the flrwt mixture, beat and 'flavor wMh two teaspoons of vanilla. Bake In one loaf In * moderate oven. It wl\\ taker about forty minutes to bak* fvtjj. Cover with a boiled Icing. - WHY HB DELAYED. "Ma." said Hlrdle, "that Mr. O'Dnlt who comes hero to see rao so much, In a lover of Mother Nature. and he" ? ? "J,nnd sakes!" exclaimed tho wor ried mother; "so that's why he ain't proposed, Is It?" ? Cleveland Jx?nder. TIIEtR STAND-BY. "The tramp Is ever before ;is," said ( tho sociological student. "Who Is re sponsible for thia?" I "The comic artist," chuckled tbe buffoon boarder. ? Chicago New*. TUB MOUNTAIN AND THBWaLLBV. peop* a wen (The Valley of the Can't. it's called. We all know that place well): And the ptthwftjr is so nagged If ding op the mountain aide That few there are who rtach the top to dwtd there satisfied. It One hut start oat eome Cno month* when the ran ia shining bright. Keying. "Pooh! That path ia easy. I will reach the top bjr night.'' Bofc bjr noon the storm-elouds gather, and a mist obscures the war. And he stumbles over bowlders and fal ters in dismay. He ia weary and discouraged; he begina to puff and pant; So he turns his footsteps backward to ward the Valley of the Can't. Here he meets again the neighbors whom he thought to leave behind ; And henceforth dwells amonc them, with the lame and halt and blind. At tl For behoid^the NoM<?!rp^ **??* t* 8wsetcat Im gardens of each A-d d~l! h~th _ ..... . . nr. H?te d oL , Who bj P.r & WS??l5U, u.. should they, too, persevere. They mi*ht * FortJSii iplishment, it one step farther up steep sacent w5?JrSK 4 V *. _ ? ? patience has* , _ -sieved a victor's crown. Here thej^livs > and learn and study, and in P?7 ae day reach the anmmit ??a whssa they rsvere. ? ? - rr-- saeh lssson Warned, each ?light acoomplis Brings them on just the saoontaia'e i Now, my laddie, where will you dwell whe? yon ?row to be a man ia the Valley of the Cfcn't or on the Mountain of the Can? ; .... ?Gertrude Morton, an 8t. Nieholaa. {BILLY'S SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION. WILLIAM H. HAMBY. I T strikes me," began Billy i Houck, Judicially squinting his left eye, "that ft is about time tbat berd of slilnln' lights from Sarrls Point was learuin* bow to behave in public." This sentiment was received with emphatic approval. Several even vol unteered to shed their blood if neces sary, to help teach that much needed lesson. "Don't get too violent, now. boys; they may come out wonderful when they learn some. If about twenty of you will Jlne in and foiler directions, we'll help make men of 'em." When Billy proposed a plan there were always plenty of volunteers to carry it out. The "shlnin* lights" referred to were six young men from 8arvis Point who had been making life burdensome (or Buckeye Ridge for three months, it had begun when these young men cre ated a disturbance at a school exhibi tion and were arrested and lined $20 apiece and costs. After that they orig inated a more lawful plan for creating disturbance. It had worked very satisfactorily. When there was a public meetiug they simply waited until it was well started and then one, with his spurs dangling, would slowly walk in and take a seat. In :i few minutes another would come in and then another and another until all six were seated. When the meeting was half over, one went out. A few minutes would elapse and then another and nuother, until tlie six were out and the meeting spoiled. Their special delight "was to disturb the Methodist preacher, (or the Justice of the Peace belonged to that church. The minister was a meek, sweet-splr lted little man who suffered long and' never upbraided; but it always spoiled his sermon when they camc, and they did not often miss. When Billy explained his plan for a school of instruction on public be havior, some of the timid ones advised against it. "Let's have them arrested for dis turbing the peace," suggested one. "Ain't any law again' a man comln' in and goin* out when he pleasea," snapped a friend of the Hilly idea. "Maybe," suggested a weak-eyed class leader, "they will get some good out of the meeting. We should not keep the vilest sinner from the house of the Lord." "Well, now, 1 ain't overly strong on religion." said Billy, "but it strikes me the circuit rider at Buckeye Bridge has a right to do bis talking without any Interference frym Snrvls Point. I ain't objectln' to these sinners goin' to the house of the Lord. It's on them lenv in' it too soon. Eduflpte 'em. A little Information on manners won't keep out the grace, and maybe it will act quicker." Billy prevailed, as he always did, and the school of instruction was set for the following Sunday evening. It was a beautiful night and the little church was crowded. Buckeye Bridge thought a great deal of its church, aud when "preachln' day" was tine, saint and sinner docked together In crowds. The songn and prayers were over, the preacher read his text and began to outline Ills sermon. The audience was strictly attentive. A heavy step sounded in the vestibule, the familiar clink, clink of a loose spur, dud a tall young man stalked down the aisle and took a seat near the front. The minister was slightly annoyed, for, of course, no one could listen while htft attention was being spurred away from the subject. There was the sound of heavy feet, stamp, stamp, stamp, and the clink, clink, clink of a spur. Another robust citizen of Karvis Point camc down the aisle and took a seat uear the front. Once more the preacher rallied. With a supreme effort be got The attention of the congregation. The sound of feet again, again the clink, clinkety clink of spurs. By the time the third wos finally seated the minister was so dis tracted he gave out a hymn and sat down to try to collect his thoughts. No one came In during the singing, but as soon as the minister renewed his Atlac!: on the text, another Pointer came dangling his spurred feet down the aisle; a little later another, aud ilnally the sixth. Fifteen minutes of the time had been wasted. The minister hurled ?hlmseir nervously at tho subject and began to grow eloquent with earnestness, .lust ns he reached the height of his theme, the tali young man near the front shuttled his feet, rose slowly, packed up his lint and coat, crowded l?y those In the end of the seat and started leisurely down the aisle, his spurs clinkety clink. As he nenred the door two men ?ose and quietly stepped in front of Jim. One of them? it was B(lly--aaid in an undertone: , "Hupposln* we go back to our seats '?nd bear the rest of the sermon. " There was a craning of necks, the preacher paused, and a tingle or excite, mcnt touched the crowd. The other five Pointers sprang up and hurried down the aisle menacingly. Their faces Indicated a determination to de molish the obstruction at the door on quick time. Four men on each side rose up quietly and closed In, a solid line across the door. Four rose up on each side of the aisle, and four came down the aisle after thfc Pointers. ? * The audience, after It caught its breath, waa ready to break into a panic. "Parson," said Billy in a reassuring tone, "you'll excuse me for sayln* a word. All you people Just keep your seats, perfectly quiet, there ain't goin* to be a bit of trouble. Now, parson, give opt a hymn, and all of you sing good -and loud." "I'll be hanged If there won't be trouble mighty quick if you don't clear that door," said the leader of the Point ers, starting forward. Billy stepped squarely in front of him. "Don't get excited now, boys," *he said, mildly. "You sln't goin' out that door and it'll be better not to make a f us8, and 1 wouldn't use any cuss words? there'* women and children hero." Che audience had caught Its cue and *ras singing with nervous loudness. The Pointers drew close together. They looked ugly. Their hands were at their hip pockets; several revolvers were half drawn. At a nod from piily the twelve men drew around in a close circle. They were picked men, cool headed, but obstlpate enough to light to the death to enforce their order. \ "Boys," said Billy, still speaking In an even tone, "go back and sit down in the front seat and stay till you are told to leave. It'll be better to listen to the preacher now than to have him preachln' over you to-morrow when you can't hear." The rowdies glanced around the cir cle and knew these men were not bluffing, nor were they to be bluffed. They parleyed a minute among them selves. { "We don't have to go back," said the leader. "Maybe not," said Billy; "then I'm afraid we'll bare to carry you." The circle drew a little closer, alert, ready. f . - The rowdies turned about sullenly and walked back to the front seat. Four cltlsens sat down In the ends of the seat beside them, eight in the seat behind. The services proceeded with the best of order. When the congregation arose to be dismissed, Billy leaned forwurd and said: "Just stay where you are, boys, till all the crowd's gone." Directly all were gone but tbe Point ers and their guards. There was a few minutes' pause. "Jimmy," said Billy to one of tbe younger men, "give us a little poetry. It has a powerful retlnln' Influence." Jimmy v.unt to the front and recited "Curfew Must Not King To-night," and at calls for more gave the "Sailor Boy" and "Blngcn on the Rhine." The Pointers stirred In their sests and one of them swore under his breath. "Quiet," commanded one of the guards. "Now, Dick," said Billy, "read us a chapter 01 Ktlkct." Dick produced a nine hundred page compendium of universal knowledge and read twenty pages on how to dress, how to care for the hair and nails, how to dance, how to carry on conversation and how to act in public. He read slowly and it wan 11.10 when he tin Ished. The whisky was dying out in the Pointers and they began to feel ?leepy and tnean. "Hay," aald the leader, in an ar. at tempt to be friendly, "ain't that about anougii "Die. ," said Billy, "1 see he ain't oaugl.. the points in the lest chapter. Rem'. ; again." Thcio was 110 further Interruption. "Tom," said Billy, "these fellers missed the lesson to-night. They need a little Scripture, seein* it is Sunday. Hupposin' you read us a Chronicle or two." It was quarter past midnight when he finished. The Pointers were wenry, fearfully weary. They were sleepy, too, and tifteen miles from their beds. They looked around appcalingly, but there was no encouragement. "Now," said Billy, 'these young men need a little history knowledge. Air, you may read the Declaration or Inde pendence." It was finished at l.:w. The bench was very hard. One of the weary Pointers twisted in his seat. Another dozed, but a terrific Jab in the ribs from the elbow of one Of the I f uards bronchi him back with a front. * "OlTt ?? the Constitution^ <tll?d Billy. m v *?'. It was half-past 2 when the last iw> tlon was qpd. '"That'll do. Alf,** said Billy. "WVll save Washington's Farvwe'.i speech till the hoys corns sgin. uaess we might ?<Jjourn/\ ^ To date, the 8arrls l*olnt "shinln* lights" are In the dark ss to the con tents of Washington's Farewell Ad dress.? The Criterion. In Minnesota and other Western Btates the telephone has frequently operated to Intercept the horse thief. When the robbery of a horse is re ported the sheriff telephones to the farmers on every road, and so many farmers have 'phones now that this is practicable. After every farmer has been given a description of the stolen horse it is pretty difficult for the thief to escape, for he must pass out of the city over some country road, and many captures have been made in this way. A locomotive of the London & North* western Railroad, named "Charles Dickens,'*" has the distinction of having traveled nearly 2,100,000 miles in haul ing express trains, a feat which the Scientific American says has not been paralleled on any other railroad in any part of the world. The "Charles Dickens," built at Crewe, was put into service on February V, 1882, and is still one of the fastest locomotives on the road, and in excellent condition. The total distance it has traveled is about nine times the meau dlstauce of the moon from the earth. The renewed outburst of abandoned and apparently- exhausted oil-wells, the sudden changes of gas-wells into oil-wells and of oil-wells into gas wells, and the other remarkable freaks sometimes witnessed in petroleum* producing regions, arc ascribed to dis turbances of equilibrium among sub terranean pressures caused by the bor ing of the rocks and the release of the compressed oils or gases, sometimes at a considerable distance from the places where the pheonomcna are ob served. A great flow in one place may cause a disturbance ? in another, and similar effects may follow the sudden choking of a vent. These facts pre sent a marvelous picture op the bal ance and interplay of forces iu the earth's interior. What would the Romans of the palmy days of the great empire say if they could revisit their province or Britannia and see tbe wonderful roads which they built to keep tbe con quered tribes in subjection to their legions utilized as speedways for auto mobiles? It is not impossible that such a spectacle may soon be wltuessed in England, for the Roads Improve ment Association, moved by the agita tion over tbe dangers introduced by motor cars on ordinary highways, has appointed a committee to consider the practicability of restoring the ancient Roman roads and adapting them to fast automobile traffic. A military authority says that this plan would be useful for defense in case of an invasion of Eugland. In a conference of the Belgian As tronomical Society, M. Emlle CJuarini, the electrician, stated tbat there is a permanent or constant current of elec tricity in the crust of the earth from northwest to coutueast, and he as cribes it to the electric induction of the sun on the earth as It rotates. Tbi* constant current is subject: to the variations from different causes? for example, auroras, wbich are observed, and sometime^ Interfere with the work ing of telegraphs. As the earth turns from west to east the permanent earth current he signals has a similar di rection. Ampere contended that earth currents produced the deviation of the compass needle, and M. Guarlm ap proves of this hypothesis The earth currents, he thinks, are alco useful in decomposed chemical products of tbe soil to form others mor> assimilable by plants.? Philadelphia Ledger. HI* Little Dob* of Splco. No one noticed how it began, but the elderly little man was disputing with the six-footer for a position at the "L" car door. "There's plenty of room over there," said the giant. "You needn't be crowd ing me." "I won't budge an inch," came the retort. "I'll show you If you won't," said the other angrily. "I'll teach you a thing or two." And at every word he elbowed him violently away. The little man was like a feather before hint and he real Iced it. He allowed himself to be hus tled along without offering the slight est resistance. Only a crimson glow flooded his gray-bearded checks. A third man sprang angrily in front of the enraged bully and growled into his face: "You ought to be ashamed of your self, sir; yes. heartily ashamed of yourself, a big. heavy nian like you!" The man addressed looked sheepishly down and said nothing. Rut the little elderly man calmly remarked to his ally: "Don't pay any attention to it. sir; we need n little variety in life."? New York Press. HI* Limitations. The petted young beauty in the car riage looked with dismay at the mint that lay between her and the sidewalk. "I think it was JSir Walter Raleigh," she said, "that threw his cloak upon the ground, on a certain memorable occasion, in order that his queen might not get her shoes muddy." "You're my queen, all right." replied the young man In the case, "but if Sir Walter Raleigh had been a clerk on a salary of $l.p> a week ho would nave done exactly what I'm goliifi to do." Whereup he carried her to the side walk? but he did It so nicely that she forgave him.? Chicago Tribune. A city firm received 110 fewer than 09ft applications In response to 111 ad vertisement for a clerk. The salary offered wn? thirty shillings H7.G0) ? week.? London Daily Newt, SOUTHERN FARM ffOTES. TONCSOF WTEHEST TO THt PLANTER STOCK MA It MO 7 ROCK GROWER. Sorc'.iam Tor Hajr. W. D. CV Portland. Teuu.. writes: "Please give us some nolo* on sorghum hay. I regard it as the |x>or farmer'* friend. It can be successfully raised where red top. timothy aud clover hay caunot be grown." Answer: I agree with you that sorg hum hay can be grown where reil top. timothy and clover hay cannot be grown. However. I have possibly not made myself clear to you aud your brothers farmers, for the term hay In Its strictest sense applies to forage tnade from tame grasses. While sorg hum makes a bay of excellent quality. It would not be regarded in tbe same light as a tame grass liny, being coars er, and of a different character and composition, generally speaking. XJn? othy hay. as you know, rightly or wrongly, is taken as the standard of hay the world over, and In many of the articles I have written I have had In mind the production of hay of a fine, soft quality, from tame grasses. 1 do not intend to overlook or !gsor? the virtues of sorghum hay which I fully appreciate, having had a good deal of experience with it, aud I desire to say that it is n great misfortune that It Is not more generally culti vated in the South on lands where no hay is now grown. If they were large ly utilized, it would solve many of the difficulties of the poor farmer, pro viding a large amount of forage throughout the winter season, enabling him to keep his stock In good condi tion, and thus enlarge that very im portant factor on every farm, the manure bean. While it is said that sorghum Is bard on the land, it Vvill of coixri* grow where man)* of the tame grasses will not grow at all, and it is not harder on the laud in proportion than other crops. Sorghum is a strong, vigorous growing plant, and hence ninkes a heavy draft on the soil, but in propor tion to its yield, does not injure the fend more than the tnmc grasses. It will r.o doubt exhaust the land sdoner than the tame grasses because of the larger yields obtained, and its more vigorous character of growth. Farm era who cannot grow the tame grasses orrwho liiul themselves financially un able to purchase seed in considerable quantities, can certainly resort to the use of sorghum with success, so there i? no reason why they should not have an abundance of buy of excellent final ity under any circumstances. If they only more generally recognize Ibis fact it would be an excellent thing for the agriculture of the South.? Andrew M. Soule, inlvuoxville Tribune. Growing Orchard Gran. I have been sowing orchard grass seed for a number of years, Ih>Ui for seed and pasture; also sow it in very poor orchards, mixing in with it clover and like it better than any other grass for poor orchards. For seed especially. I should think three-fourths of a bushel per acre sufficient seed, as orchard grass grows in bunches or stools, and when not crowded these stools throw up great bunches of stalks with large heads of seed. For pasture or rolling land Inclined to wash I sow 1 to 1% bushels per acre. I think orchard grass is the hardiest, the easiest to live and one of the best grasses we have. I sow it with oats and clover in the spring and have never failed 1 to get a good stand. I sow the oats and cultivate them in well, getting the ground well fined and level, then sow the orchard grass seed and harrow in well before a rain. I have never prac ticed rolling the ground just after sowing the seed, but generally roll the orchard grass land after the second yeac, early in the spring while the l ground Is damp, as the bunches of grass open up considerably during the winter. Orchard grass docs not pro duce a crop of seed the first year, and by sowing it with clover a crop of hay can be harvested the first yeur. The ground improved and I believe in n better condition to produce a better crop of seed the next year, than with out the clover; however, there is some objection to the clover on account of making it harder to clean the seed properly. I think this objection now Is overcome by better machinery for cleaning orchard graas seed. The seed can be sown on w*ieat In the fall or any time in the winter or spring with good results. Good land should yield from ten to twenty bush els per acre. I have known as much as thirty bushels per acre being made, but this yield is rare.? Thomas L. But ton, in Farmers' Home Journal. - Hogging Down CowptM. If one were to obtain a perfect stand of peas on a field sown broadcast It is not likely that the benefit to the soil would be any greater than if the peas were drilled In. The benefit derived by the soil depends on several things. First, if a good stand is obtained, the soil is shaded all the simmer ami kept moist and damp, then if the peas form roots frocly they exti:?ct a considerable Sharps and Flats. The value of goods Imported by Bul garia. during the first half of 1904 was $11,680,000, exceeding by $3,763,600 the value of the Imports for the same per iod of 1903. The exports were valued at $12,931,000, an Increase of $3,860, 000 over the valne of the exports in tb^ corresponding period of 1903. The principal articles of Import showing an Increase, are machinery and Instru ments, the Imports of which were worth $1,479,731 more than In 1903. The betrothal of Itaron Edward do Rothschild, only son and heir of Daron Alphonse de Rothschild, to Miss Oer maino Halphen, daughter of Ktnil Hal phen, the sugar rcfftirr. is announced, soys n I'arls dispatch. Uaron Afphonw do Rotscblid is the head of the famous Paris banking houso of tiio Roths childs. llaron Edward Ik 35 years old. a lieutenant of huzzars in the French reserve and a member of tho swell Rue Royale Club. Secretary Shaw ruled that a farmer has the right to sell his own leaf to bacco within certain limitations. amount of nitrogen from the atmos phepe. A small part u( this is stored in the rootn. and so even if the hay is cut off, the amount of available nitro Ken in the soil la considerably in> creased. A lance per cent, of the nitra> Ren in the !>ea crop Ik in the leave*, though of course a certaiu per cent, ia transferred to the peas as the crop matnres, and If the peas are cut for forage or If they are pastured off by any kind of live stock and the roots turned under and a crop put on so as to keep the land covered during the winter, a large amount of nitrogen caa be stored In the soil at practically no cost, for the benefit of the succeeding crop. Hogging off peas is an excellent practice and should he followed more extensively. The writer prefers to sow peas in drills as a rule. This tuny be done by stopping up two out of every three tubes in the ordinary grain drill. The ..teas should be sown at altout the rate of a bushel per acre, and if the method suggested is followed, the drills will be about twenty-four inches apart. As soon as the peas come u|, run over the land with a weeder; this may be kept up for two or thre*.? cultivations a week or ten days apart, provided tin1 weede* is run parallel with the rows. The leaves will he torn somewhat, but the j injury does not amount to much, and I one can cover the land very rapidly and cheaply in this manner. The advantages of drilling the pens are as follows: First, one is almost certain to obtain a uniform stand, weeds can be kept in check and moisture retained lit the soil, the peas will make a more uniform growth and should pod more evenly, and they can also be cut and handled for hay to greater advantage than when sown broadcast. Tlu-re J? also a decided saving in seed which is a matter of considerable importance owing to the high pnk-c of peas. -i*iof. Soule. Malt Profitable Fowl! For the cost ami trouble required In raising them, guineas ?re anions the most profitable fowls which rail be raised on the farm. Tliey prefer to . seek their own fo<ul in tin* meadows and fields, and so long as they ean liiul plenty themselves they will not eume to Ret it. In this way the* eat up a great number of worms ami grubs and keep down bugs and beetles to a great extent. A good flock of the fowl* needs a large range, and every farm f of any size should be blessed with * " few at least. It is not profitable to attempt to raise them on small ranges, for they will not thrive when cooped up the same ns other barnyard fowls. A floek of about twenty will ran go over a farm of fifty to 100 acres, ami by their persistence will help to keep \ down all the bugs and insects. They will do more. They will help to keep down many noxious weeds and wild plant. The guineas are also the most trustworthy watch-dogs. If taught to roost in the hennery, or dost* to ir, they will give the loudest alarms a* soon ns an enemy approaches. l?ogs, . foxes and human beings alike attract their attention, and they keep up the shrill cries until the enemy has left the place. A great many poultryiueu try to keep a few guineas in thciv Hocks simply for this one purpose of giving the alarm when chicken thivws eotne around. ? - y < Mort IMveraUlcitlnn. ? - " The lesson which the I.ouis\M> Courier-Journal reads from the present state of nfl'airs is "more diversifica tion of crops, with the raising of cotton ns a part only of the farming system ami as a cash crop, and corn, small grains and grasses for rotation and home consumption for man and beast, except as a surplus. The construetiou of the Isthmian canal will call for a great increase of all food products of the farm, garden and orchard, nnd tht? proximity of the South will give It ail advantage over more northern belts, by which it should bo prepared to profit." Sure Hlgn of Debility One of the sjrest signs of debility In trees is the growths from the trunk, and main branches nnd the dying off, year by year, of the twiggy terminal shoots. The sap does not eireiilato freely to the extremities, but chlelly, about the trunk ami main branches, putting out a feeble growth on these parts, which grow stronger the nearer they approach the roots.? Southern Fruit t J rower. nigh Oronnil Kor renehea. It Is best on general principles to select high ground for an orchard, es pecially peochec. A northern site give* a colder and later soil and thus retard* the blossoming until a later period, re ducing the danger from late spring frosts, and avoiding the bad effects of the sun's rays on trees in bloom if they hap|>en to be covered by frost.? South ern Fruit Grower. Live Item* of News. President Roosevelt made a visit to "LJttle Hungary," In the Bast Side of New York City, where he made an ad drees before the Hungarian Republi can Club. His visit, It Is said, wss the first ever made by a President of th? United States to that section of the city. Cardinal Gibbons today will attend tho ceremonies of conferring tho pall ium upon Archbishop Moeller at CUfr? clnnati. The Religious Education Conventlom began Its regular sessions in Boston. Tim Kentucky Wesleyan College, tho official school of the Methodist Epis copal Church South, at Winchester, Ky., was burned. A conference of the officials of tho New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad with a commit too of Hretnon was held in New York, but without definite result. The Chicago police begin to believe that Jobann Hoch is ".lake" Hoffman, former janitor for II. II. Holmes, who was hanged tor several murders.